Table 3 Mean costs (€) per patient at Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) 2.0 and EDSS 6.5 (2005).

	Austria	Belgium	Germany	Italy	The Netherlands	Spain	Sweden	Switzerland	UK
Patients at EDSS 2.0
Utility	0.719	0.649	0.721	0.677	0.694	0.717	0.696	0.767	0.725
Total (SD) costs	26 348	22 276	27 910	21 683	20 517	19 604	27 254	18 538	19 679
	(22 818)	(20 254)	(21 905)	(19 472)	(18 849)	(21 025)	(31 396)	(21 877)	(19 170)
Direct costs	18 132	13 582	18 305	15 067	9676	13 604	16 462	10 707	9537
Inpatient care	2979	1387	1807	1840	544	2240	4449	417	94
Outpatient care	4528	1902	2205	1215	1370	1131	2750	1419	3512
Tests	307	221	155	669	210	348	368	212	63
Drugs	8807	7426	12 881	7610	5027	7964	7459	6919	4324
Services	192	319	79	493	1176	155	139	518	102
Investments	133	466	171	169	259	231	211	120	160
Informal care	1185	1861	809	3071	1089	1534	1086	1102	1282
Indirect costs	8216	8694	9605	6616	10 842	6000	10 792	7831	10 142
Patients at EDSS 6.5
Utility	0.447	0.384	0.440	0.442	0.477	0.431	0.462	0.540	0.477
Total (SD) costs	54 821	43 790	55 344	53 717	44 196	44 104	52 457	49 274	53 724
	(31 791)	(25 295)	(20 761)	(32 016)	(26 744)	(30 198)	(47 567)	(37 477)	(41 532)
Direct costs	31 634	26 000	28 948	37 355	23 093	31 517	32 630	26 804	33 179
Inpatient care	7886	2784	4989	5316	2175	3284	6913	3652	1340
Outpatient care	6380	5194	4785	2196	2239	3564	3003	2461	5440
Tests	197	306	366	397	155	332	126	207	78
Drugs	7218	7724	7377	4089	4245	5505	5572	5904	2962
Services	742	2028	946	1702	4876	1714	8978	3479	2368
Investments	2189	2691	2769	1439	2564	1714	1592	6046	2609
Informal care	7022	8545	7715	22 215	6839	14 715	6445	7196	18 382
Indirect costs	23 187	17 790	26 396	16 362	21 103	12 588	19 827	22 471	20 545

Exchange rates: €1 = 9.07 SEK, 1.56 CHF, 0.688 GBP.

CHF, Swiss franc; GBP, British pound; SEK, Swedish kronor.